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• Fulgentius the Mythographer (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1971), by Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, ed. by Leslie George Whitbread
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Ohio State Press

• Christophori Landini Florentini Libri Quattuor: Primus de Vita Activa et Contemplativa; Secundus de Summo Bono; Tertius et Quartus in Publij Virgilij Maronis Allegorias (4 books in Latin (book 1 also known as Disputationes Camaldulenses), bound in a larger set of early printed books; 1508), by Cristoforo Landino (page images in Germany)

• Vergil in the Middle Ages (London: Swan Sonnenschein; New York: Macmillan, 1895), by Domenico Comparetti, trans. by E. F. M. Benecke, contrib. by Robinson Ellis (page images at Google; US access only)

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• Aelii Donati Commenti Vergiliani: Reliquiae Praeter Vitam, Praefationem, Prooemium (dissertation in Latin; Greifswald: H. Adler, 1910), by Aelius Donatus and Julius Ender (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient Lives of Vergil, with an Essay on the Poems of Vergil in Connection with His Life and Times (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1879), by Henry Nettleship (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Virgil, by Aelius Donatus, trans. by David Scott Wilson-Okamura (HTML with commentary at virgil.org)
• Vergil: A Biography, by Tenney Frank (Gutenberg text)

• Virgil and the Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Donna B. Hamilton (PDF at Ohio State)

• Les Faictz Merveilleux de Virgille: Reimpression Textuello de l'Édition Sans Date, Publiée à Paris, Chez Guillaume Nyverd (in French; Geneva: J. Gay et fils, 1867), ed. by Gustave Brunet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Wonderful History of Virgilius the Sorcerer of Rome, Englished for the First Time (Mediaeval Legends #2; London: D. Nutt, 1893) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Atti e Memorie (Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana; in Italian) (full serial archives)

• Virgil's Epic Technique (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Richard Heinze, trans. by Hazel Mary Harvey, David Harvey, and Fred Robertson, contrib. by Antonie Wlosok (HTML at UC Press)

• Fama and Fiction in Vergil's Aeneid (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Antonia Jane Reobone Syson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Virgil's Epic Technique (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Richard Heinze, trans. by Hazel Mary Harvey, David Harvey, and Fred Robertson, contrib. by Antonie Wlosok (HTML at UC Press)
• Dante's Epic Journeys (originally published 1974; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by David Thompson (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Characters and Epithets: A Study in Virgil's Aeneid (1926), by Nicholas Moseley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Metaphorische Kunst Vergils in der Aeneis (in German; Graudenz: G. Röthe, 1894), by Alfred Preuss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sage von den Wanderungen des Aeneas bei Dionysios von Halikarnasos und Vergilius (in German; Leipzig: A. Edelmann, 1882), by E. Wörner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Virgil and the Tempest: The Politics of Imitation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1990), by Donna B. Hamilton (PDF at Ohio State)
• Virgile et les Origines d'Ostie (in French; Paris: E. de Boccard, 1919), by Jérôme Carcopino (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Virgil, Aeneid 11 (Pallas and Camilla), 1-224, 498-521, 532-96, 648-89, 725-835: Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary (main text in Latin; commentary in English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2018), by Virgil, ed. by Ingo Gildenhard and John Henderson (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays (main text in Latin; commentary in English; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2012), by Virgil, ed. by Ingo Gildenhard
  • multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • multiple formats at Google

• Six Screenplays (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Robert Riskin, ed. by Patrick McGilligan (HTML at UC Press)
• How to Write Photoplays (Philadelphia: Royal Pub. Co., c1916), by Carl Charlton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Art of Sound Pictures (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., c1930), by Walter B. Pitkin and William Moulton Marston, contrib. by Jesse L. Lasky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Film: Seine Mittel, Seine Ziele (In German; Berlin: Schuster und Loeffler, 1921), by Urban Gad (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to Write a Photoplay (Chicago: Photoplaywrights' Ass'n of America, c1914), by Arthur Winfield Thomas, contrib. by B. P. Schulberg
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints (English content only; 1921), ed. by F. Kingsbury and Godfrey E. Phillips (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Shah Latif and His Message, by Jī. Em. Sayyidu, trans. by Egnert Azariah (HTML at gmsyed.org)

• The Vitality of Allegory: Figural Narrative in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Gary Johnson (PDF at Ohio State)

• De Codicibus Aeschineis (dissertation in Latin; Berlin: Actien-Gesellschaft, 1882), by Johannes Adam (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer: Romance and Reform in Victorian England (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996), by Michael Galchinsky (multiple formats with commentry at wayne.edu)

• The Poems of Aimeric de Peguilhan (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Aimeric de Peguilhan, ed. by William P. Shepard and Frank M. Chambers (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The Newgate Novel, 1830-1847: Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens and Thackeray (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1963), by Keith Hollingsworth, illust. by George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne, and William Makepeace Thackeray (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Archaeology of Anxiety: The Russian Silver Age and its Legacy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007), by Galina Rylkova (page images at Pitt)

• Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Wen Jin (PDF at Ohio STate)

• Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and His Contemporaries (Amherst, MA: Amherst College Press, c2015), ed. by Vanja Malloy (illustrated HTML with commentary at Amherst)

• Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Anthony Dyer Hoefer (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sixteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism Since 1972 (followup volume to a 1974 survey; Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), ed. by Jackson R. Bryer, contrib. by Walter B. Rideout, James Leslie Woodress, Brom Weber, James L. W. West, Stuart Y. McDougal, Philip G. Cohen, David Krause, Karl F. Zender, Reginald Lansing Cook, John P. McWilliams, Bruce Stark, John Henry Raleigh, John J. Espey, Ellsworth Barnard, Warren G. French, Joseph N. Riddel, Linda Wagner-Martin, and Richard S. Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images at Pitt)

• Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (in English and French; London: Open Humanities Press, 2017), by Érik Bordeleau, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette, and Adam Szymanski, contrib. by Erin Manning (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• The Court of Comedy: Aristophanes, Rhetoric, and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Wilfred E. Major (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Avant-Garde and Geopolitics in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006), by Fernando J. Rosenberg (page images at Pitt)

• Arnold's Poetic Landscapes (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alan Roper (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and the Modern Temper (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1973), by Edward Alexander
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press
  • PDF at Ohio State
• Matthew Arnold the Ethnologist (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1951), by Frederic E. Faverty (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• The Age of Eclecticism: Literature and Culture in Britain, 1815-1885 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Christine Bolus-Reichert (PDF at Ohio State)
• Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater (1969), by David J. DeLaura (HTML at Victorian Web)
• The Alien Vision of Victorian Poetry: Sources of the Poetic Imagination in Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold (1952), by E. D. H. Johnson (HTML at Victorian Web)

• Claudius Lavergne: Peintre d'Histoire et Peintre Verrier (in French; Paris: Bloud et cie, ca. 1910), by Georges Claudius Lavergne, contrib. by Claudius Lavergne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Claudius Lavergne: Peintre d'Histoire et Peintre Verrier (in French; Paris: Bloud et cie, ca. 1910), by Georges Claudius Lavergne, contrib. by Claudius Lavergne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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